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Greatness starts with the replacement of hatred with polite disdain.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: September 11
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To succeed in life requires a total inability to do anything that makes you uncomfortable when you look at yourself in the mirror.
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Debt is a mistake between lender and borrower, and both should suffer.
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This is the tragedy of modernity: as with neurotically overprotective parents, those trying to help are often hurting us the most.
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Also, it's good to have more than one profession, in case your own profession goes out of style. A Wall Street trader who's also a belly dancer will do a lot better than a trader who winds up driving a taxi.
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Read books are far less valuable than unread ones.
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Let me be more aggressive: we are largely better at doing than we are at thinking, thanks to antifragility. I’d rather be dumb and antifragile than extremely smart and fragile, any time.
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When we want to do something while unconsciously certain to fail, we seek advice so we can blame someone else for the failure.
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Modernity has replaced ethics with legalese, and the law can be gamed with a good lawyer.
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